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  1. 1. which would you do?

    • play your way into shape by playing each week?
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    • practice and play 3-4 week intervals
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    • Give it up for a while, hire a coach, work on the game.
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bigoak Dedicated Member

bigoak

Instead of playing tournaments at 3-4 week intervals, don't you think that playing tournaments with regularity will get rust off and technique back sooner. Practice is good and it has worked in the past but wouldn't you think that "playing" your way back into game shape would be better at this time?

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Slammin' Sam Well Established Member

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The scandal and pending divorce proceedings are too much of a distraction for him right now. Tiger needs to work through those problems and continue to work on his game. Ultimately he has the potential to come back as good or better than before but that page of the book hasn't been written yet.
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The scandal and pending divorce proceedings are too much of a distraction for him right now. Tiger needs to work through those problems and continue to work on his game. Ultimately he has the potential to come back as good or better than before but that page of the book hasn't been written yet.

+1

I saw a therapist when I was going through my divorce (with kids) and he said figure 2 years after the legal mumbo-jumbo is done - and that is pretty close to what it took. Lucky for me I could afford a sabbatical for that time.

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mdbuschsr Well Established Member

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+1

That two year number is one that I have heard many times. It took my ex-brother-in-law about that long. It took my best friend more like three years, and my sister (see ex-bro-in-law above) is still a disaster. It's different for everyone, but two years in supposed to be the "average".

I wish Tiger no ill-will, but I could not care less if he ever gets his game back together. Suffice it to say that I feel too much is made of sports celebrities (role models) these days. Very few live up to the hype. He's a great golfer, no doubt about it. But the first time I see my son throw a hissy like Tiger, will be the last time he plays golf for a long time!

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alf174 Great Member

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My wife thinks he needs some female loving to jog his mind back into gear.

Apparently she doesn't know thats what got him here.

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." Woody Allen
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IMO, Tiger's problem is mostly mental right now. He just doesnt seem to have the fire and focus that he once did. I think he still has every shot in the bag, its just a matter of his brain being able to make his body string all those shots together for 4 straight rounds.
Right now I think Tiger should just take some time off, get his life straightened out and come back with golf being his main focus.

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My wife thinks he needs some female loving to jog his mind back into gear.

She's a keeper.

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Kieran123 Great Member

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Do whatever the hell he wants regardless of what the public want him to do. He is not our slave.

Play as much as he wants, bang who he wants, live his own life, not the life the public wants him to.

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Chas Great Member

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He should play much more frequently, every week if possible. IMO he should never have taken the long hiatus, just fessed up to it all right away and carried on with his professional life while dealing with the personal issues. Easy for me to say I suppose but he made his own bed ....

Even a player at his skill level cannot afford to take such a professional "vacation", or at least he should expect to find it very tough to return to his former level of play. The whole "sex addiction therapy" was a silly waste of time IMO, but I daresay he was under a lot of pressure to do it. Looking back he may wish that he hadn't but such is life.

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Radford Wooly Well Established Member

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Play through! They rust will eventually fall off. He might not get his game back this season, but he'll be ready for next year.

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JWL1957 Dedicated Member

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Do whatever the hell he wants regardless of what the public want him to do. He is not our slave.

Excuse me .... but isnt the banging part what got him into this situation? Lets all hope that he doesnt develope a sudden urge for married women. LOL
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shades9323 Great Member

shades9323

Excuse me .... but isnt the

No, getting

caught is what got him into his situation. He was doing just fine while he was banging all those hoes. I have been saying for a long time that Tiger needs to jump back on the ho train and get things going again. His marriage is over, he should just move on.
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Let's see, I'm 111th in the FedEx Cup standings. I'm getting looked at for a Ryder Cup spot that I DO NOT DESERVE. Maybe I should play in more events for these reasons:

1: I need Ryder Cup points
2: I need FedEx Cup points
3: I need Wins
4: I'm going to lose my #1 Ranking if I don't do something about it
5: I need to prove that I can still be competitive
6: I need to be sharp at Majors with tournament preparation
7: Without a swing coach, I need to test my game more often
8: If I can barely contend in strong fields, maybe a weaker field would help me find my comfort level

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nuck81 Great Member

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I love how a bunch of guys on a forum that would sacrifice a testicle to play well enough to shoot +18 over four rounds in Tour conditions, feel the need and right to criticize, critique, and offer advice to the world #1 golfer....
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I love how a bunch of guys on a forum that would sacrifice a testicle to play well enough to shoot +18 over four rounds in Tour conditions, feel the need and right to criticize, critique, and offer advice to the world #1 golfer....

He's the undisputed best player in the world. We expect more of him, and quite frankly, he expects more of himself.

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